Labour will win election

Labour MP Emily Thornberry has declared her party will win the next general election. The shadow foreign secretary made the comment on Question Time, which was recorded at the showpiece Winding Wheel in Chesterfield last night and later aired on BBC One.Host David Dimbleby described the town as ‘great’ and said: “It’s the first time we have been in Chesterfield but I am in no doubt we will be coming back quite soon.”WATCH THE SHOW HERE‘Labour civil war’Mrs Thornberry was joined on the panel by Liz Truss, a Conservative MP and chief secretary to the treasury, Vince Cable, leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nesrine Malik, a columnist for the Guardian newspaper, and Iain Dale, a presenter on LBC.“As long as we remain united behind a leader on a radical manifesto, we will win the next election,” said Mrs Thornberry.“We will show that there is hope out there and there is another way, it does not have to be like this.“When the … [Read more...] about QUESTION TIME: ‘Labour will win next general election,’ Chesterfield audience hears

The surprise late swing to Labour that deprived Theresa May of her parliamentary majority at last year’s general election was driven not by young left-wingers, but by older, more socially conservative voters, a new study has found. Those who switched their support to Labour during the election campaign had an average age of 45, were more Eurosceptic and more opposed to Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership than existing Labour voters, according to a report by the Policy Network think tank. The finding casts doubt over suggestions that Labour’s improved performance was the result of a “youthquake” of younger voters throwing their support behind the party. While Labour’s support among young people did increase between 2015 and 2017, most of this group had already decided to back Mr Corbyn’s party by the start of the election campaign, when it was languishing at 25 per cent in the polls. Read more 'Youthquake' credited with helping Labour in 2017 poll … [Read more...] about Labour’s late general election surge driven by middle-aged centrists, not young Corbynites, study finds

London has long been seen as the canary in the Conservatives’ electoral coalmine, and the party is becoming increasingly panicked about the prospect, on 3 May, of said canary revealing itself to have been dead for ages. In a few weeks, London will go to the polls in local elections, at which turnout is not expected to be higher than 30 per cent, and which are expected to end with the Labour Party taking control of local councils such as Westminster, Wandsworth and Kensington & Chelsea. These are the wealthiest enclaves of already wealthy London, where until recently Conservative candidates did not even have to bother troubling the portico’d doorsteps to be assured of victory. Whatever happens a few weeks from now, those days are long gone, and its implications for Conservatives and Conservatism are bleak indeed. Read more Labour MPs mock plans for new centrist political party Why Labour is expected to make these dramatic gains is complex to the point of … [Read more...] about It seems unbelievable to say it, but Corbyn’s Labour will clean up in London’s local elections – and then further afield

0 Have your say Labour would secure more votes but win fewer seats than the Conservatives in Scotland if a general election was held today, polling analysis has found. Projections based on a recent IPSOS Mori survey found Labour would secure 27 per cent of the vote but claim just four seats north of the Border - while the Tories would win 24 per cent of the vote but take 11 seats.Electoral reform campaigners said it was further proof the First Past the Post system used in Westminster elections was unfair.Both Holyrood and Scottish local authority elections use a form of proportional representation.The same IPSOS Mori survey found the SNP 13 points ahead of its rivals in Westminster voting intentions.Up to 1.8 million Scottish votes were “wasted” in the 2017 General Election because they had no impact on the result, the Electoral Reform Society (ERS) said.If another election was called today, the society, using Electoral Calculus projections, predicted the … [Read more...] about Labour could win ‘more votes but fewer seats’ than Tories in Scotland

A NEW Oxford City Council leader will be elected by Labour Party councillors tonight. Insiders have tipped the current deputy leader, Susan Brown, as the favourite to take over Bob Price, who has served as council leader since 2008. Ms Brown is also a senior communications manager and the head of stakeholder engagement at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Other favourites are understood to include, Alex Hollingsworth, who is a former council leader and is, like Ms Brown, a member of its executive board. But it is understood Mr Hollingsworth, who runs his own publishing business in Jericho, is also completing a PhD at Oxford Brookes University and is wary of how taking up the new role could impact on his time. Councillors will meet at Oxford Town Hall tonight for a private meeting to choose the Labour Party group's new leader. Other contenders are thought include the council’s former deputy leader and current board member for finance, Ed Turner, and … [Read more...] about Oxford’s Labour group to elect new city council leader tonight